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Trade between Austria and Belgium

In 2024, Austria exported $2.9 billion to Belgium and imported $3.2 billion. Austria ran a deficit of $261 million with Belgium, compared with a surplus of $538 million in 2019. Belgium was Austria’s 16th largest trading partner (2% of its trade), and Austria was Belgium’s 20th (0.8%).

Summary

Austria → Belgium
$2.9billion
Belgium → Austria
$3.2billion
Austria’s balance
-$261million

Balance

Austria’s trade balance with Belgium

Trade between Austria and Belgium grew 2.2-fold since 1995

USD billions (current). Austria’s exports and imports; bars: its balance (green surplus, red deficit).

  • Exports 2.9
  • Imports 3.2
  • Balance -0.3

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$910 million$1.8 billion-$902 million
1996$989 million$1.6 billion-$650 million
1997$992 million$1.7 billion-$705 million
1998$1.1 billion$1.8 billion-$732 million
1999$1.2 billion$1.5 billion-$366 million
2000$1.2 billion$1.5 billion-$236 million
2001$1.4 billion$1.5 billion-$170 million
2002$1.2 billion$1.6 billion-$377 million
2003$1.4 billion$1.7 billion-$304 million
2004$1.7 billion$2.1 billion-$393 million
2005$2.1 billion$2.1 billion$12 million
2006$2.3 billion$2.5 billion-$214 million
2007$2.4 billion$2.9 billion-$528 million
2008$2.7 billion$3.2 billion-$454 million
2009$2.2 billion$2.5 billion-$318 million
2010$2.1 billion$2.5 billion-$424 million
2011$2.5 billion$2.9 billion-$438 million
2012$2 billion$2.6 billion-$580 million
2013$2.1 billion$2.6 billion-$514 million
2014$2.2 billion$2.8 billion-$646 million
2015$1.7 billion$2.2 billion-$509 million
2016$1.7 billion$2.3 billion-$550 million
2017$1.8 billion$2.3 billion-$499 million
2018$2.1 billion$2.4 billion-$315 million
2019$2.9 billion$2.3 billion$538 million
2020$2.8 billion$2.3 billion$421 million
2021$3 billion$3 billion-$1 million
2022$2.9 billion$3 billion-$133 million
2023$7.8 billion$3.2 billion$4.5 billion
2024$2.9 billion$3.2 billion-$261 million

What they sell each other

What Austria sells to Belgium

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Cars$330 million · 11.4%
    13 thousand tonnes · Austria’s destinations
  2. Nitrogen heterocyclic compounds$229 million · 7.9%
    715 tonnes
  3. Vaccines, blood and antisera$201 million · 6.9%
    81 tonnes · Austria’s destinations
  4. Soft drinks$103 million · 3.6%
    37 thousand tonnes
  5. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$81 million · 2.8%
    4 thousand tonnes · Austria’s destinations
  6. Vehicle lights and signals$75 million · 2.6%
    2 thousand tonnes
  7. Metal hardware and fittings$57 million · 2%
    7 thousand tonnes
  8. Nucleic acids and other heterocycles$55 million · 1.9%
    3 tonnes
  9. Auto parts$46 million · 1.6%
    2 thousand tonnes · Austria’s destinations
  10. Coated paper$46 million · 1.6%
    41 thousand tonnes

What Belgium sells to Austria

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Cars$228 million · 7.2%
    16 thousand tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  2. Harvesters and farm machinery$164 million · 5.2%
    11 thousand tonnes
  3. Nitrogen heterocyclic compounds$145 million · 4.6%
    173 tonnes
  4. Vaccines, blood and antisera$134 million · 4.2%
    80 tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  5. Polypropylene$122 million · 3.9%
    76 thousand tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  6. Tractors$111 million · 3.5%
    9 thousand tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  7. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$101 million · 3.2%
    380 tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  8. Refined petroleum$90 million · 2.8%
    81 thousand tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  9. Auto parts$88 million · 2.8%
    6 thousand tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  10. Polyethylene$74 million · 2.3%
    41 thousand tonnes · Belgium’s destinations

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Koper (Slovenia) to Antwerp.

The estimated sea route between Koper (Slovenia) and Antwerp is 3,142 nautical miles (5,820 km) long: ≈ 7.5–9.5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Strait of Gibraltar and Strait of Dover.

Austria is landlocked: it ships through Koper (Slovenia).

Sailing estimate without port calls, waiting or transshipment; not a schedule. One main reference port per country: in large countries it does not represent all of its ports.

Split by transport mode

  1. Sea$4.5 billion · 74.6%
  2. Air$1.5 billion · 25.4%

Mode estimated from value per kilo and geography; both directions together.

How much each matters to the other

Belgium was Austria’s 16th largest trading partner (2% of its trade), and Austria was Belgium’s 20th (0.8%).

Belgium in Austria’s trade
1.5%
Belgium’s rank among Austria’s partners
16th
Austria in Belgium’s trade
0.8%
Austria’s rank among Belgium’s partners
20th

Compare with

Other partners of Austria

Other partners of Belgium

Sources and methodology

Sources and licenses

Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), in current US dollars, with exports and imports reconciled between countries. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. The sea route comes from our own network derived from World Bank shipping density (not from nautical charts), between one main reference port per country (World Port Index); days are the distance at 14 and 18 knots, without port calls or waiting. Data up to 2024.

Hong Kong, Singapore, the Netherlands and Belgium re-export goods from other countries: their figures include transit.